Gloucester's centre Mike Tindall is out of contract in June and has not been offered a new deal, despite talks with the club. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images

Mike Tindall's seven-year stint with Gloucester is set to end in June, despite the departure of Bryan Redpath as the club's head coach this week.

Redpath had held out against offering the former England captain a new two-year contract and the 33-year old Tindall, who joined Gloucester from West Country neighbours Bath, has been exploring options in France. Gloucester had virtually finalised their squad ahead of Redpath's departure and Billy Twelvetrees will add to their midfield options when he arrives from Leicester in the summer.

"We have had discussions with Mike but he has not been offered a new contract," said Ken Nottage, the Gloucester managing director. "That was Bryan's decision, but Mike is still playing for us and he has been an outstanding professional, someone who is brilliant with our sponsors. He is under contract with us until the end of June and I do not know what his plans are. I suppose you could not rule out Mike staying with us, but that would be a decision for our new head coach."

Gloucester will wait until the end of the season before considering who should replace Redpath, who resigned on Tuesday after four successive Premiership defeats. He has been linked with a move to Sale, his former club, and the Gloucester director Ryan Walkinshaw said the club would consider legal action if it discovered that Redpath had been tapped up by the Sharks while under contract.

The two sides meet at Kingsholm on Saturday in a match that will go a long way to deciding who fills England's sixth place in next season's Heineken Cup. Nottage said the Sale board would be given the customary hospitality before and after the match.

"We are still waiting to hear from Sale about who will be coming, but there will be no animosity towards them: we will rise above that. Bryan is a good guy we hold in high regard. He assured us that he was resigning because of recent results and it was an honourable thing to do."

Sale, who are looking for a director of rugby/head coach after sacking Tony Hanks last month, plan to hold talks with Redpath to see if he would be interested in returning to the club where he spent six seasons as a scrum-half from 2000. "Bryan has only just resigned from Gloucester and I have yet to speak to him," said Sale's chief executive, Steve Diamond. "From all accounts he wants some time out, but I will talk to him, or his agent, in the next couple of days to see where he is at. I can understand the speculation, but Bryan walked away from Gloucester for his own reasons. Everything we do is above board and transparent. The appointment of our director of rugby will be done in the right manner."

Shane Geraghty is someone else who may be returning to a former club. The six-cap England fly-half/centre left London Irish for Northampton in 2009 and joined Brive a year ago, but he is in line for a return to the Madejski Stadium.

Rob Howley will be Wales's acting head coach on their three-Test tour to Australia this summer after Warren Gatland, who broke both his heels last week after a fall at his holiday home in New Zealand, was told not to travel for the next six weeks.

Howley will be in charge when Wales face the Barbarians in Cardiff at the beginning of June before leaving for Australia. Gatland may join the party for the final two Tests, but that will depend on whether he needs an operation on one or both of his feet, with surgeons postponing a decision until they see how the injuries heal.